Reply To: What's your top typography book?

Right now I'm reading Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide by Johanna Drucker and Emily McVarish. It's not really a typography book per se, but it gives you the historical context of fonts, trends in typography, etc. For example, you really get an appreciation of how moveable type was as mind-blowing an invention in the 1400s as the Web is today. Or how some Renaissance designers based the proportions of their letterforms on the human body. Fascinating stuff if you're a type geek. Be warned, it is a text book, so it's not light reading. But it is well-organized and beautifully illustrated.